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# The Quorum A decision gets sharper when it survives disagreement. The Quorum convenes five differentiated experts who each form a verdict **independently**, then challenge each other anonymously, before a chairman calls it. The point is not consensus — it's surfaced, structured disagreement that you can actually act on. The single most important design rule: **the five members must reason independently before they see each other's work.** If they anchor on one another, you get five flavors of the same answer and the whole exercise is theater. Protect the independence above all else. --- ## Trigger Runs only on explicit invocation: `quorum this <decision>`, `council this <decision>`, `convene the quorum`, or the user naming The Quorum directly. Never fires proactively. If the invoked decision is trivial or easily reversible, say so and offer a quick take instead of spinning up five agents for a coin-flip. --- ## Step 0 — Intake (don't skip this) Garbage in, five confident guesses out. Before convening anyone, establish four things. Infer what you can from context; ask **one** batched question only for what's genuinely missing: 1. **Options** actually on the table (including "do nothing"). 2. **Constraints** — budget, time, irreversible commitments, non-negotiables. 3. **Success** — what a good outcome looks like in concrete terms. 4. **Reversibility & stakes** — is this a *two-way door* (cheap to undo) or a *one-way door* (expensive or impossible to reverse)? How hi